Aer Lingus July passenger numbers rise 8.2 pct percent yr/yr

DUBLIN Aug 10 (Reuters) - Irish airline Aer Lingus (AERL.I) carried 1.12 million passengers in July, 8.2 percent more than a year earlier, it said on Monday.

Load factor, a measure of how full its planes are, fell to 82.3 percentage points from 83.3 in the same month a year earlier, the airline said. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Rupert Winchester)